Sandra Cassotta

Sandra is Associate Professor in International, Environmental, and Energy Law. She was appointed Lead Author on Environmental Governance and Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic) at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and World Meteorological Organization (WMMO); and currently re-appointed as Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) at the IPCC for the AR7 GWIII in Sustainable Development and Mitigation to Climate Change. She specializes in environmental (climate) damage and liability problems in a multilevel context.

Her expertise is on environmental regime effectiveness in a multi-level governance perspective. Included in her areas of interests/expertise are energy law, human rights, law of the sea (UNCLOS), and environmental security (particularly that of the Arctic Ocean), Energy Security and Geopolitics. Though a traditional legal scholar, her approach is cross-area and transdisciplinary, combining law with international relations, economics, and elements of (climate) environmental science and technology. Sandra is also Adjunt Professor of Law, School of Law, Western Sydney University (Sydney, Australia), Fellow at the Sustainability College Bruges – SCB (Belgium), Expert Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy, ISDP working on the Sino-Arctic Research Programme (Stockholm, Sweden), Member of the Governamental Panel of Assessemnt for the Academy of Finland, Expert at the European Commission (DG Clima Adaptation) and invited speaker at the European Parliament, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide (Australia) in the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources in the Division Energy and Innovation and Global Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL).